Marking Time with Fabric and Thread

Unlock daily creativity with this guide for recording time by using fiber craft. Ever since the original release of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, it's been agreed that a creative daily practice transforms your making. But fiber artists-from knitters to weavers, quilters to embroiderers-experience making in a different way than other crafters. Here's a guide especially for them on starting, maintaining, and enjoying a purposeful daily practice while making an arresting, very personal artwork. Well-known fiber artist Tommye McClure Scanlin (author of the bestselling Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond) breaks it down into clear, doable steps. . Enables fiber crafters of any kind to start and successfully benefit from a personal daily practice. . Packed with practical ideas, in text and photos, for making a personal fiber art calendar, journal, or diary. . Dozens of prompts to ward off the largest challenge: feeling creatively ?stuck.? . Stories from more than 25 makers explain the benefits of daily practice, sharing inspiring photos of their finished "time capsule" pieces. . Fascinating facts and history, including why we humans have the urge to mark time visually. . Foreword by widely followed blogger and weaver Sarah Swett. AUTHORS: Tommye McClure Scanlin weaves and educates. She is professor emerita, University of North Georgia, where she founded the weaving program in the 1970s. Her tapestries are widely exhibited and she maintains an active studio practice. Scanlin has been active in organizations including the American Tapestry Alliance, British Tapestry Group, and Handweavers Guild of America. She has served on the Board of Directors of John C. Campbell Folk School and of the Lillian E. Smith Center. Her other books include The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver and Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence. She has created tapestry diaries as part of her daily practice since 2008. Author and artist Sarah C. Swett shares stories from her life experiences through her tapestries, in her writings, and on social media. SELLING POINTS: . How to express your experience of time by starting a creative daily practice . Handmade "diaries" and stories shared by over 25 respected makers highlight how-tos that work for fiber crafters specifically . Enhance your making by learning to notice and reflect on the passing of time 100 colour images